I started the year off the way most of you did: watching Marie Kondo tell me how to live my life. If you haven\u2019t watched her show, she is a Japanese organizational expert who helps people declutter their homes and lives by throwing out things that don\u2019t bring them joy. I am a believer. I went through my closet and dresser with a voracious energy, tossing aside the stuff that had been restraining my joy.<\/p>\n
As I get further along in college, it\u2019s easy to do this same thing with the people I\u2019m around. If they don\u2019t bring joy, *boop!* they\u2019re not written into the schedule. This is a hard thing to admit at a school that is so community-oriented, but I think that it is so easy to slip into. As the Student Association has contemplated the \u201cBe Present\u201d theme, we have emphasized how community and presence includes everyone \u2014 even the people who we don\u2019t like, or who aren\u2019t in our social club or even the people who are in the super long line at Panda Express.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what I love about Harding: we\u2019re all looking in the same direction and standing together as we do it. How wonderful. A week ago, we all looked to a red moon at 12:15 in the morning. Just yesterday, we held Post it and Pray and lifted up prayers for everyone who asked. This week, I\u2019m committed to continuing this prayer for the people I don\u2019t know, don\u2019t see or even don\u2019t like. I\u2019m committed to looking up or around at things of beauty and sharing those with the people I\u2019m around. I hope you\u2019ll join me as we try to Be Present and manufacture joy for all of the people around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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